The Way We Live Now eBook

‘Baggage! Slut!’ said Mrs Pipkin;
’after all I’ve done for you, just as
one as though you were my own flesh and blood.’

‘I’ve worked for it, I suppose;—­haven’t
I?’ rejoined Ruby.

’You send for your things to-morrow, for you
don’t come in here no more. You ain’t
nothing to me no more nor no other girl. But I’d
’ve saved you, if you’d but a’ let
me. As for you,’—­and she looked
at Sir Felix,—­’only because I’ve
lodgings to let, and because of the lady upstairs,
I’d shake you that well, you’d never come
here no more after poor girls.’ I...